Ayanna Pressley

Ayanna Pressley (3 February 1974-) was a Massachusetts Democratic politician.

Biography
Ayanna Pressley was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1974, and she later moved with her mother to Brooklyn. In 1994, she began working for the Boston Marriott Copley Place to support her mother, who had lost her job, and she became involved with Democratic party politics in Boston, Massachusetts. In January 2010, she took office as a member of the Boston City Council, and, in 2018, she ran in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts' 7th congressional district, defeating progressive incumbent Mike Capuano.